Post originally by Brand Robins at 2003-05-27 21:39:56
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For the other comments about the difference between what people like Ceasar told us about the Gauls and Alobragies and what we know about the Ui Niall in Ireland -- I have to agree. Of course, I have to say it would only make sense that there would be differences. We are, after all, talking about members of different tribes of a group that only rarely considered themselves part of one race, living on different continents, several hundred years apart.

Thinking that an Irish raider in 500 AD would be exactly like one of the Celts charging into Rome in 300 BC is rather like thinking that the Norman invaders in 1052 were exactly like the American marines in the 1800s.

However, to be honest, Slaine isn't really either Celtic-realism or Irish-saga. It's a setting based partly on New-Ageisms, partly on psuedo-history, and partly on pop-cultural ideas of what was Celtic. There are little bits of research in there that may be legit, but they’re generally used to support tone and add a bit of exoticism without making the setting as alien as a really Celtic chronicle might be.

As such it’s a really fun place to have adventures, fight naked, and hack people to bits in grand Conan style. It’s there to have fun with a Celtic feel of mass slaughter, not to be an historical Celtic game.